We are living in an exceptional new technological era. Yet looks can be deceiving. In fact, what most strongly defines our current age is not all the new technology we…
…Concord Consortium has offered online training to teachers in several of our research projects. Online learning is not new to us. In the 1990s we designed and built the first…
…are rarely given the opportunity to do their own sensemaking in Earth science, and thus do not develop deep understanding of the content. New standards and new tools require new…
…rest, she says, is history. She now teaches 7th and 8th grade general science to ENL (English as a New Language) students in the Freeport Public Schools in Freeport, New…
…median(), but it’s a black box for students new to statistics. Instead, we’re going to find median the Common Core way by emphasizing algorithmic thinking. First, write down the steps…
…Rightful Presence Rishi Krishnamoorthy, Tasha Austin, Ravit Golan Duncan, Edna Tan, Frieda Reichsman, Burrell Smithen, and Jaya Joshi Since spring of 2020, our ‘new normal’ world pivoted towards online spaces….
Importance Tools and curricula involving games, models, and simulations engage students in rich investigations and open up many new possibilities for deep learning. Digital curricula also collect streams of data,…
…drawing tools, prediction graphs and multiple-choice and open-response questions. Figure 2. Each year, a new cohort of Rhode Island school districts has been recruited. Teacher participation was also open to…
…curriculum. When the NGSS are adopted, many more teachers may be charged with teaching the new content. But the subject will likely be new to these teachers and resources scarce….
…new HTML “tags” that are increasingly supported by modern browsers, Web-based technologies offer a wealth of promising new possibilities. In order to build an integrated collection of models and content…